We’re having a big signing for The BLEEDING EDGE Anthology next month. It will be at Mystery & Imagination bookstore in Glendale, CA at 3pm on 2/20/10. The editors William F. Nolan and Jason V Brock will be there as well as Ray Bradbury, George Clayton Johnson, Earl Hamner, R.C. Matheson, Norman Corwin, John Tomerlin, James Robert Smith, Cody Goodfellow and Lisa Morton. Hope to see you there!
- James R. Beach
Publisher/Editor-in-chief
The Trade Editon of THE BLEEDING EDGE Anthology is now in stock. It features all-new/previously unpublished fiction by Ray Bradbury, Richard & R.C. Matheson, William F. Nolan, George Clayton Johnson, Dan O’Bannon, Joe Lansdale, John Shirley, Gary Braunbeck, Earl Hamner, Nancy Kilpatrick and many others. It is signed by Editors Nolan and Jason V Brock and it can be ordered from the link on the DD website front page or at: www.jasunni.com/shop
I’m doing a special 25% off sale after Christmas to thank everybody for the great subscription drive we had these last couple of months. It will run from now until December 31st, 2009. Come January 1st, we will be raising the price on the magazine. So if your subscription is running out or has, or you want to pick up any back issues, here’s your chance to save some money before the cost goes up!
Here’s the link to the shopping cart at the DD website: http://darkdiscoveries.1freecart.com/ Just enter DD25 in the checkout.
We’re also down to just 5 copies of Bill Gauthier’s CATALYSTS, so i’ve discounted them to half price to move them out! (The coupon will apply on that as well for even more savings). Here’s the link: http://darkdiscoveries.1freecart.com/i/84125/catalysts-a-book-by-bill-gauthier.htm
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone!!!
- James Beach
Publisher/Editor-in-chief
A sad note that Screenwriter and Director Dan O’Bannon (Alien, Lifeforce, Dark Star, Return of the Living Dead, Total Recall, The Resurrected) passed away on Thursday 12/17/09 in St. John’s hospital in Santa Monica. He had been fighting a 30-year bout with Crohn’s Desease and finally succumbed to complications stemming from it. He is survived by his wife of 25 years, Diane and his son Adam.
My co-editor Jason V Brock and his wife Sunni had become very close to Dan over the past few years and were hit pretty hard by the loss. Jason posted about his friendship with Dan on his blog at WordPress (jasunni.wordpress.com) and we’re planning on featuring some tributes to him in an upcoming issue of DD. It was a pleasure for both Jason and I to be able to feature work from O’Bannon in the anthology Bleeding Edge as well as profile him in Dark Discoveries magazine (along with excerpts from his forthcoming Necronomicon and artwork by Dan).
A huge loss of one of the best screenwriters in the science fiction and dark fantasy field. Dan was incredibly smart and talented and walked his own path. He will be missed!
- James R. Beach
Publisher/Editor-in-chief
A review has already surfaced of the new issue of Dark Discoveries – The H.P. Lovecraft Special. Here’s the link to it at She Never Slept : http://sheneverslept.com/newsandreviews/ . (Thanks Sarah!)
The fall Issue (#15) is done and it’s a H.P. Lovecraft special. Featuring HPL, Brian Lumley, H.R. Giger, Dan O’Bannon, S.T. Joshi, Wilum Pugmire, J.K. Potter, David A. Riley, Cody Goodfellow, Allen K and others.
Issue #15 of Dark Discoveries is at the printer now. It’s a special Lovecraft issue featuring HPL, Brian Lumley, H.R. Giger, Dan O’Bannon, Wilum Pugmire, S.T. Joshi, Kris Kuksi, David A. Riley, J.K. Potter, Cody Goodfellow, Allen Koszowski and more! I should have a proof back in a couple of days and if all goes well it will be done before Thanksgiving.
- James R. Beach
Publisher/Editor-in-chief
Dark Discoveries magazine has now opened for submissions. I’ve revamped the guidelines and raised the pay a bit more. There’s a couple of big changes in that I’m not taking simultaneous submissions anymore and we’re getting tougher on proper formatting, etc. I will still be open to reprints, but will mostly be running classic reprints from older authors. If we meet our mark for the subscription drive by the end of the year, then I’ll bump it up to pro rates ($.05 a word). Currently we’re almost halfway there. See the INFO page for guidelines.
- James R. Beach
Publisher/Editor-in-chief
I’ll be a guest this coming weekend at the yearly Cthulhucon in Portland, OR. (http://hplfilmfestival.com) along with William F. Nolan, Dan O’Bannon, Laird Barron, Wilum Pugmire, S.T. Joshi, Robert Price, Cody Goodfellow, Jemiah Jefferson and my DD co-editor, Jason V Brock (who will be showing his Charles Beaumont Documentary for the first time in full). I’ll be doing panels with Nolan and Brock and also Cody Goodfellow and Laird Barron. I’m also running a dealer’s table for Dark Discoveries so if you’re there, drop on by and say hi!
- James R. Beach
Publisher/Editor-in-chief
With issue #14 hitting around the time my wife had a baby I’m a little behind, but wanted to post a quick update on submissions for Dark Discoveries magazine. Please hold off on sending your submissions for just a short bit longer as I am working with my web person, Sunni Brock, on incorporating a submission section into my web server with a dedicated email, an automated receipt response, tracking system, etc. It will be done very soon, and then we will be officially re-opening for submissions with an increased pay rate, new guidelines, etc.
I’m launching a subscription drive now as well. I’m going to have to raise the cover price finally starting January 2010, so I want to give people a chance to take advantage of the lower price now before it goes up. My goal is also to be paying professional pay rates ($.05 a word) by the end of this year. I need 75 subscriptions (renewals will count too) to get there.
Thanks to the help of my new staff (headed up by my managing editor Jason V Brock – www.jasunni.com) we’re on a solid quarterly schedule for Dark Discoveries – having produced 3 issues since December, 2008 – with the fourth (#15) due in October. My commitment to you is we will continue that in the future. Here’s a taste of what we have slated for you in upcoming issues:
Issue #15: Lovecraft Special – Featuring H.P. Lovecraft, Brian Lumley, H.R. Giger, Dan O’Bannon, S.T. Joshi, Wilum Pugmire, Cody Goodfellow, Allen Koszowski, David A. Riley and more.
Issue #16: Horror Comics/Pulps Special – William F. Nolan, Frank M. Robinson, Hugh B. Cave, EC Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Weston Ochse, Paul Bens Jr., and more.
Issue #17: Dark SciFi Special – Dennis Etchison, Joe Lansdale, John Shirley, Philip Jose Farmer, Harlan Ellison, Philip K. Dick and more.
Current subscribers wishing to renew their subscription, to find out where you stand, or for any other queries, please drop me a line at: darkdiscoveries@msn.com
James Beach
Publisher/Editor-in-chief
Dark Discoveries
